A man who was biking across the U.S. with a friend when he was shot in the neck during the Aurora theater shooting last summer hopes to complete his cross-country trek with a new fundraising mission.

Stephen Barton began his latest tour, called “Ride for Aurora,” on Saturday morning with friend Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent .

They are raising money for those who were injured in the theater shooting in July 2012 and face life-long medical costs .

Last year, Barton had rode his bike 2,700 miles from Virginia Beach to Aurora when he went to Batman thriller The Dark Knight Rises and was shot. He will attempt to ride the remaining 1,400 miles to San Francisco in the next three weeks, according to his blog.

Every dollar earned through the trip will go to the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance.

“We’re optimistic that those donations will be significant — enough, say, to pay for a year of physical therapy for one victim, or to buy a handicap-accessible van for another,” Barton wrote in his blog rideforaurora.org/trip.html.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.

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